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Spark New Zealand Limited
Formerly
Telecom New Zealand
Company type
Public
Traded as
NZX: SPK
ASX: SPK
Industry
Telecommunications
Predecessor
New Zealand Post Office
Founded
1 April 1987; 37 years ago (1 April 1987)
Headquarters
Auckland, New Zealand
Area served
New Zealand
Key people
Justine Smyth, Chair[1]
Jolie Hodson, Chief Executive
Stefan Knight, Finance Director
Grant McBeath, Customer Director
Mark Beder, Technology Director
Matt Bain, Marketing Director
Heather Polglase, HR Director
Melissa Anastasiou, General Counsel
Tessa Tierney, Product Director
Services
Fixed telephony
Mobile telephony
Internet access
Leased lines
Data transmission
ICT services
Streaming video on demand
Home automation
Revenue
NZ$3,531,000,000 (2015)[2]
Operating income
NZ$962,000,000 (2015)[2]
Net income
NZ$375,000,000 (2015)[2]
Total assets
NZ$3,207,000,000 (2015)[2]
Total equity
NZ$1,778,000,000 (2015)[3]
Number of employees
5,562 (2016)[3]
Divisions
Spark Home, Mobile and Business
Spark Wholesale
Spark Digital
Spark Ventures
Spark Connect
Spark Foundation
Skinny Mobile
Website
spark.co.nz
sparknz.co.nz
sparkdigital.co.nz
sparkventures.co.nz
sparkfoundation.org.nz
skinny.co.nz
Spark New Zealand Limited is a New Zealand telecommunications and digital services company providing fixed-line telephone services, mobile phone services, broadband, and digital technology services including cloud, security, digital transformation, and managed services. Its customers range from consumers to small - medium business, government agencies and large enterprise clients. It was formerly known as Telecom New Zealand until it was rebranded to Spark in 2014. It has operated as a publicly traded company since 1990. Spark's mobile network reaches 98% of New Zealand, with over 2.5 million mobile connections and 704,000 broadband connections[4]
Spark is one of the largest companies by value on the New Zealand Exchange (NZX). As of 2007, it was the 39th largest telecommunications company in the OECD.[5] The company is part of New Zealand Telecommunications Forum.
Telecom New Zealand was formed in 1987 from a division of the New Zealand Post Office, and privatised in 1990. In 2008, Telecom was operationally separated into three divisions under local loop unbundling initiatives by central government – Telecom Retail; Telecom Wholesale; and Chorus, the network infrastructure division. This separation effectively ended any remnants of monopoly that Telecom Retail once had in the market. In 2011 the demerger process was complete, with Telecom and Chorus becoming separate listed companies.[6] The company changed its name to Spark New Zealand on 8 August 2014.[7]
Spark has 63 retail locations around New Zealand, including 16 in Auckland.[8]
^"Leadership Squad".
^ abcd"Spark New Zealand Annual Report 2015" (PDF).
^ ab"Spark Annual Report 2016" (PDF). Spark Investor Centre. Spark NZ. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
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Global Information
NZ$3,531,000,000 (2015)[2]
NZ$962,000,000 (2015)[2]